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The Nokia N95 is going to be available very soon. As everyone near me knows I’ve been bollocking on about it for ages. However today I really found a time when I could have used it.
On the way to the London Web Standards Group we got a bit lost. The N95 has GPS and a […]

I’ve been married almost a year. This next week and a half is going to be one of the longest times since then I’ve been without, Rosemarie, my wife. While I’m looking forward to going to California for the first time, I’m also going to miss my wife like crazy.
I’m sure she knows this, and […]

Thanks to Big Stu for helping me fix my MySQL server this morning. I will back posting all the stuff I’ve been writing. More RAM has also been added to the box. The server is on the mend!

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A while back I did a post about Trimthefat which is a great GUI for lipo. It strips universal binaries of the architecture you don’t use to save space.
Another application I’ve found that is really handy for getting saving wasted space is Youpi Optimizer. While I wish I was a bit more multicultural unfortunately I […]

I love EarthDesk it’s really neat. However it costs money and I am a cheap bastard. OSX Planet is an open source application that does the same thing. Some great things like 30 minute updating cloud cover, earthquake points, volcanoes, even satellites!
I love the idea that a community can make something like this that is […]

I keep posting about things I want to build in Cocoa, not stuff I have, but I promise that I’m going to get there and make some of these.
Today’s post refers back to the one I did on Thursday. I’ve been using a sticky notes in the top right hand corner of my screen for […]

So I’ve been looking around for some things which might make good Semantic Web demos. I went back to one of my old favourites for another look. So here is the FOAF co-depiction path between myself and Frank Sinatra. Libby Miller’s database of photos (mostly from geeky conferences) can connect me to Frank Sinatra via […]

For the first time in ages I was so glad it was a Friday. I love my job, but this week there has been a lot on. I think partly our estimation of some part of the project has sucked. Partly I’ve just not been able to focus for various reasons.
What I am looking forward […]

This week has been chaos for me. I’m trying desperately to rein in all the things I have and to find some focus on the tasks in hand. When everything is going to pot, how does one avoid being distracted?
I find now more than ever I wish I had a proper GTD system in place […]

It’s more than official, it’s glaringly obvious. The server I use goes up and down faster than a £300/hr prostitute. One of the engineers from work has promised to help me sort it out. Obviously working where I do they are all UNIX ninjas, so expect everything to be sorted sometime next week.

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So today I lost my card, bit annoying but no big deal. I called Barclays to cancel it. Hung around on the phone a while, which was nice. I got a very friendly chap called Paul. He took my account number and sort code, read me my name, read me the first couple of lines […]

Today I had some PHP training from Rasmus Lerdorf while he is in London. Rasmus invented the PHP language, and now he works for Yahoo!.
The training was very interesting, although a little theoretical in places. He talked a lot about performance, and demoed the new features in PHP 5.2. This is one of the reasons […]

There was a lot of Werewolf playing at BarCampLondon2 as one would expect. There was also some talk of starting a Flickr group with CC licences. These could then be printed to Moo cards.
While I know some people want to do illustrated or CGI graphics I don’t have any of those skills. I do however […]

Today was interesting, there was a bit of sparing going on between the Semantic Web and Microformats. While all in good fun, it did make me think a lot about perceptions.
It felt like even though it had clearly been said that Microformats was better presented and marketed, people still wanted it to be ‘better’ than […]

Tom Morris did a great presentation on how to use eRDF to markup Semantic Web in a Microformats kinda way. I’m going to see if I can steal his code example and add it to this post later.
Update! Tom has added his slides on Semantic Web:
A Quick But Detailed Introduction. I love the eRDF examples. […]

When I’m down, she encourages me, when I need a bit of a push she is there using both hands. I know it’s pretty soon after valentines day for such sopiness, but I’m truly lucky.

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So I have a problem. It’s a bit of a corker, and it seems like everyone who uses AJAX suffers from it. That means, me, and probably you.
The problem is AJAX is not accessible. Gez and Steve improved the situation, but again AJAX is not accessible. I know I’m being rather alarmist, but the situation […]

Doh! I realised that MarsEdit hasn’t been sending my posts to my blog for a couple of days
However it does seem like this is my fault not that software. So, I am going to damn and curse myself while editing all the time stamps and uploading my posts. I hate to spoil the […]

This year I decided to do something sane. I bought tickets to Stomp for my wife, but not on valentines day. I love my wife every day, and I hope I show it every day too. With all the silliness around making the most of that one day a year, I think people forget that […]

So I haven’t properly being doing GTD recently. However I still really believe in the system. My new copy of the book arrived last week, after I gave Dad my copy. I’m convinced that with a few bits and bobs this system would be very achievable using the technology I have around me day to […]